Do you take the shampoo, tea bags, etc from a hotel home with you?
 

I nearly always take the left over tea bags or shampoo in a hotel room home with me. I feel a bit cheap every time I do it but I figure I paid for it. Do you take the 'freebies' home with you after a stay?

No......

Yes, I take the shampoo and soap and sell them at the swap meet. I'm thinking of expanding operations to include light bulbs and toilet paper.

No...................

Nope but without fail I always swipe the pen for some reason, I just love hotel pens. They seem to have magical qualities that mean they never run out.

Yes I do. I give them to my mother, who gives them to her church to send with missions. You would not believe how much of that crap people collect in her church and send away.

No never.

uh... no...

Soap and shampoo, yes. I usually give them to my sister, or another gf who likes that stuff, and reminds me before trips to bring that shit back.

No, you did not pay for it all. You paid for the hotel to make a selection avalible to you, that do not mean you are free to take whatever is left over with you home. Just like you cant fill bags with bread from the "free buffet" - but I guess that line of thinking was to much to ask of you.

It's people like you who also write a little extra on their insurance claims because "you figured you paid for it"

Here is a newsflash for you. You dident pay for it, but the next on in line behind you WILL pay for YOUR shit. You should team up with AnalHobbit, you will make a great team. The sad part is, he is trolling - you arent

Soaps, shampoos, minibar, etc ... I even take the lady from the hotel reception with me if she's young and good looking.

I used to, but I never used them so I stopped. Only place I kept & used them was the Ritz Carlton because the soap/shampoo were Bvlgari and that smells sooooooo good.

If I've opened/used them, then yes...

Jesus Christ...

ask MaxCash to give you a $20 raise or something.

I leave a present instead of taking anything :)

I take the bed linen and duvet cover...

Tried disconnecting the toilet but it was too heavy to carry to the car...

umm, hell no. I dont even use that stuff. I bring my own soap and shampoo when I travel. My own towel too!

everything but tea bags, hell yes. i have guests up here all the time and we have an entire basket of stuff for them under the guest bathroom cabinet for them whenever they arrive. there has to be 60 plus items in there lol.

Wow. Seriously.
You steal teabags from hotels?

1) The quality is shit
2) If the quality isn't shit, you can afford to buy teabags

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You enjoy stealing shit...

it's not stealing LOL, they are there for your own use. and i don't know what hotels you are used to staying at, but the four seasons and the fairmont have great teas. though i don't bother taking them, we have plenty of our own ;)

They are "free to use" not "free to take home"
Just like you cant fill bags with bread from the free buffet.

lol @ comparison

tbags nope.. but the little gels and stuff come in useful when traveling.

The palace hotel in Madrid used to give you a lovely toilet bag full of stuff, I suppose at $500 a night they thought you deserved it.. It was full of freebies, probably the cosmetic companies used to supply them as a form of advertising.

i want some of what you are smoking lol. do you even travel? other than hostels?

you know you are bored when you are arguing about little shampoo bottles at 7 in the morning on gfy lol

I usually don't even use the hotel soap and shampoo. So there's no reason to bring them home.

But as Lee said, I also have a thing for hotel pens, and I almost ALWAYS take them home. I have no idea why I do that. Lol.

For the record, I don't know what's the big deal, and why some people are complainning about taking this stuff home. If I was going to use it, I wouldn't have a problem taking it home.

:2 cents:

That's a woman thing

I make use of the thread and needle they provide in the rooms by sewing the drapes shut. You know, just to mess with the maids.
WG

that just shows exactly how little you know about me and how many months I travle each year.

My thoughts exactly. :1orglaugh

no I use them before leave

I wonder if Sarah has realized that nobody likes greedy fat people.

nope.. i hate the shampoo they hotels have..

well first i have to figure out which of the bottles is the shampoo.. it happened that i took the creme for shampoo..


and well the quality sucks.

I take what ever I need at the time.
I agree on the pens Ritz Carlton have some pretty good ones.

Oh please. I have never stolen a thing in my life. Yes, it does come with the room. If you have a tea or coffee maker in the room and they leave like three tea bags or instant coffees that has come with the room. Now, if you put the coffee pot in your bag then that doesn't come as part of the price of the room.

As for shampoo..it isn't as if they just screw the lid back on and give it to the next guy.

:1orglaugh

their soap and shampoo sucks. i bring my own and dont touch theirs. besides, those bars of soap and shampoo are tiny anyway. you really go out of your way to take 10 cents worth the soap/shampoo?

That is true....my handbag usually has a hotel pen in it somewhere.

How is it going out of your way to put a bar of soap from the room you paid for into your suitcase? It isn't as if you are breaking into the maid's closet. I am more of a tea taker than a soap or shampoo taker, I will admit.

1 - They're not going to reuse them

2 - Essentially, you are paying for them. $200/night definitely covers your night, the maid service, breakfast, and whichever 10 cent shampoos they provide.


Someone needs to get their panties out of a bunch.

They always have teas I would never think to buy for myself. So, if there are two bags left then yes, I take them. If it is just something I have at home probably not. Sort of the same with the soaps..usually something I wouldn't buy for myself but it is nice to try.

and fake nicks ..people love those

I have never used the shampoos provided by the hotel, I always bring my own stuff. I will admit when I was in Atlanta for the forum last year I bought back the mini bottles of ketchup, mayo and mustard that were on my room service tray just because I thought they were so cute.

exactly. I take it from the nice hotels I stay at. Then I'll save it for when guests come over. Then they have choices of a bunch of stuff. When they leave I toss the soap. :2 cents:

I always take them and use them when I stay on HOSTELS... because when I stay at HOSTELS they don't offer that kind of thing...

I think you should talk to a hotel manager about that :thumbsup

It might come as a surprice to you, what happens to the leftover soap

Think the last hotel I was at, was for a rah rah rah business meeting. Only thing I ever brought home from those was a slightly deeper seeded dislike for rah rah rah meetings. When you are a non-drinker, those things are a huge yawn.

I earn enough to buy my own shampoo and tea bags, so no.

Sometimes. Depends what hotel i'm staying at really.

Last time i stayed in 'The Venetian', i almost cleaned that room out... :1orglaugh

I think i never did that...